Favières, Somme

Favières is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

Geography
The commune is situated on the D140 road, 2 mi from the estuary of the river Somme, some 12 mi northwest of Abbeville.

Railway
Favières is served by a halt on the metre gauge railway from Noyelles-sur-Mer to Le Crotoy. The railway is now a heritage railway, the Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme, which formerly formed part of the Réseau des Bains de Mer.

Personalities

 * Aeronautical engineering pioneers Gaston Caudron (1882) and René Caudron (1884) were born in Favières.